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词汇 birdcage
释义 birdcage
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈbɜːd.keɪdʒ/ us /ˈbɝːd.keɪdʒ/
a cage (= container with wire bars) in which birds are kept so that people can look at them鸟笼
 
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Examples from literature

All yesterday and to-day we have been making flannel coats for the monkey, and covers for birdcages, and improvising shelters and snug corners for our pets. 
The life of the roadside dwellers, the folk who live in little stone houses and show two flower-pots and a birdcage in their windows, has a strange fascination for me. 
There were several birdcages in the windows, and a constant trilling and chirping going on within them. 
What a heap of rubbish they take away with them—old birdcages, worm-eaten furniture, and every kind of lumber! 

Examples of birdcage


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Of course, with a birdcage, it's completely different.
They carried an identifying object of their group with them - sweet pastries, brooms or birdcages, for example.
He is defeated and locked up for a year in a birdcage.
Imaging was performed using a standard birdcage head coil.
That, as has been said today, would have resulted in the countryside looking like a birdcage.
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Can wirescapes or birdcages, whether of very large power pylons or a conglomeration of smaller posts and pylons be avoided?
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A pigsty or a birdcage would not reasonably be called a house, but what about things like the public house, the monkey house, the doghouse?
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These giant pylons apart, this country is becoming a birdcage.
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The coveted spot was the birdcage, an actual metal framework built up on stilts.
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There were eleven holding cells (ten for men and one, nicknamed the birdcage, for women).
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A birdcage (or bird cage) is a cage designed to house birds as pets.
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The meaning of this is that the birdcage has been assisted by the addition of the other objects.
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The birdcage is made of painted metal and contains several wooden perches.
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She then shrinks him and traps him in a birdcage.
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Lawned areas sweep down to the mounting ring, birdcage and the enclosures.
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